Eighty-One Counterfeits，The Billionaire's Belated Regret

Clara Evans has spent five years as the kept woman of billionaire Austin Hayes, and every designer handbag and jewel he gave her was a counterfeit. His circle laughs at her as a gold digger who cannot tell real luxury from cheap knockoffs, never guessing that she once worked as a personal luxury shopper and spotted each fake at a glance. She faked joy through all eighty-one of them, saying nothing.

When his first love Natalie Vance returns from abroad, Austin tosses a black card down and offers three million dollars as severance. Clara accepts at once, her debt of gratitude finally paid, and packs to leave. But Austin keeps testing her, certain she is only pretending to walk away, and when she refuses to come running he threatens to cut off every penny to the orphanage that raised her.

Bound by the one weakness he can use against her, Clara must decide how much of herself she is still willing to trade for the place she once called home.